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Nearly eight decades ago, on April 18, 1942, a band of airmen known as the Doolittle Raiders lined the deck of the USS Hornet in their B-25 Mitchell bombers, riding the uneasy waves of the Pacific Ocean. Readying to strike the heart of the mighty Japanese Empire - Tokyo - these bold and innovative airmen took the fight to an enemy who had earlier attacked the Hawaiian Islands. The airmen focused their surprise offense with what they had available to them, 16 medium bombers outfitted with just four 500 pound bombs; they chose to strike the enemy’s heart in aviation’s...

Judge rules against Kansas governor’s order limiting in-person church gatherings April 18, 2020 07:57 PM, Updated 40 minutes ago Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly talks about impending lawsuit over church order Kansas Governor Laura Kelly spoke at her daily briefing about her plans to go to court to stop Republican lawmakers from overturning her executive order limiting church gatherings. (April 9, 2020) By Governor Laura Kelly/Facebook A U.S. District Court of Kansas judge issued a temporary restraining order on Saturday against part of Gov. Laura Kelly’s executive order that limited church gatherings to 10 or fewer people, paving the way for...

Political activist Arundhati Roy accused the Indian government on Friday of exploiting the coronavirus outbreak to inflame tensions between Hindus and Muslims. She told DW that this alleged strategy on the part of the Hindu nationalist government would “dovetail with this illness to create something which the world should really keep its eyes on,” adding that “the situation is approaching genocidal.” […] Roy claimed the government was exploiting the virus in a tactic reminiscent of one used by the Nazis during the Holocaust. “The whole of the organization, the RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist group — Editor’s note]...

Honor without honorsAbout four weeks ago, David Amador dropped by the Alfredo Gonzalez Texas State Veterans Home in McAllen to visit his father Robert, a U.S. Army veteran who suffered from dementia. David visited his father several times a week. When Robert’s health was better, they would go for long drives, sometimes out to South Padre Island or Boca Chica Beach, or maybe just down the road to Applebee’s. One time they went all the way up to Martindale. David kept visiting his father as his health declined. He’d bring him some food and a newspaper. “My dad knew the...

Years of hard work have paid off for Columbus, Ohio teen Lashawn Samuel. Living in poverty and struggling with hunger, Samuel had to be hospitalized at times due to health issues, and lost a friend to gang violence. Nevertheless, the young man walked 3 miles every day from his home to a local library to study and get help with his homework. Starting in eighth grade, Samuel began his daily walk from his home to the Columbus Metropolitan Library, where he would sign in to the Homework Help Center at 3:00 p.m., work until the center closed, and then walk...

Saturday marks 114 years since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck the Bay Area and beyond. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake killed more than 3,000 people and destroyed 28,000 buildings. The earthquake was felt just after 5 a.m. throughout the Bay Area. The earthquake broke loose less than 30 seconds later, with an epicenter near San Francisco. Strong shocks lasted from 45 to 60 seconds. The great earthquake was felt from southern Oregon to south of Los Angeles and even as far as central Nevada. The earthquake marks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time.

The Bay Area’s very own Three Twins Ice Cream closed on Friday. After 15 years, founder and CEO Neal Gottlieb announced he was ceasing operations as of Friday, April 17. Gottlieb shared the news on Facebook, noting the coronavirus had an effect on the difficult decision. He said business began to be unsustainable and any chance of trying to save it went down the drain because of the pandemic. He said it is likely that someone may revive the brand in the future, but unsure how likely. Gottlieb showed his appreciation for all of the support over the years. “One...

We are watching the birth of the job-killing, ice cream-eating liberal Democratic Party. After a week of blocking more money for American small businesses, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., decided it would be effective to show up on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” on CBS to communicate her human side. It was a bizarre interview with the woman who stopped billions of dollars in aid for small businesses and their employees. I served with three Democratic speakers of the House: Tip O’Neill, Jim Wright and Tom Foley. It would be unthinkable for one of them to be as...

Do you watch or hear about President Trump's daily briefings? Yes 65% No 35% Do the President's daily briefings make you more favorable to the president, less favorable or have no effect on you attitude towards the president: More 45% Less 36% No affect 18% Half of voters credit trump on handling the coronavirus crisis; his handling of the economy and stimulating jobs. Continues to receive majority approval.

Everybody wants a baseball season. Nobody knows quite how that will look amid the coronavirus pandemic. Those are the only certainties for a sport that has an unbroken chain of seasons with at least 100 games stretching back to the 19th century. But as more and more hopeful hints have emerged this week — from Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, and from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York, who both publicly touted the feasibility of playing in empty ballparks — a distressing backdrop still looms: If teams cannot sell tickets, how much will...

A 15-year-old Marietta murder suspect is to be deported to El Salvador once released from criminal custody, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says. Brayan Segura, also known to authorities as Brayan Eduardo Rivas and Brayan Rivas-Segura, was arrested by Marietta police on April 9, accused of the stabbing death of 14-year-old Marietta girl Janina Valenzuela the evening prior. Police said Segura told them he stabbed Valenzuela near The Arbors at East Cobb apartment complex on April 8 as part of an initiation into the MS-13 criminal street gang, because she claimed to be from a rival gang, 18th Street. Segura...

Here’s how it would work: In the next month or so, Biden would announce Michelle Obama as his running mate. With a little reverse engineering of the Obama-Biden bumper stickers of 2008 and 2012, they’re good to go. Michelle would immediately attract the undying worship of the national press corps. With the country still in lockdown, she can wave to Andrea Mitchell & Co. from the front door of her residences in Washington, DC ($8.1 million purchase price), Martha’s Vineyard ($11.75 million) or Chicago ($1.65 million). Barack Obama, who manfully supports his wife in all her endeavors, would joke about...

Hawaii Governor David Ige is preparing to slash teacher salaries by 20 percent as the state faces the grim financial realities of the coronavirus pandemic...Inge warned the state’s public sector unions about the possible pay cut on Tuesday, just months after negotiating more than $160 million in raises for the next two years. Those raises were virtually certain to pass the legislature weeks ago, but the pandemic forced lawmakers to reverse course...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told Breitbart News on Saturday that he is moving to reopen his state’s economy starting next week because the United States depends on Texas’s success to thrive. Abbott, in an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel, said that Texas is “the economic engine of America” and must reopen now that the coronavirus crisis is in decline. Texas, he noted, is the world’s 10th largest economy on its own. “As you and your listeners probably know, Texas has always been ranked number one in the United States for creating jobs and for...

Thought this was worth sharing! Found it on a friends FB feed: My friend who is a lawyer in Michigan posted this. It addresses constitutional issues people site to disobey the “shelter in place” order. “Liberty gives you the right to act the fool if you so choose; it does not, however, give you the right to do so at the expense of others.” -A sentence I jotted in my Constitutional Law class notes one day in 2009. Because so many of us are focused on the ill-advised and outright dangerous protest against Michigan’s “stay home, stay safe” order that...

The Covid-19 shutdowns have been based on the premise that the disease would kill more than two million Americans absent drastic actions to slow its spread. That model assumed case fatality rates - the share of infected people who die from the disease - of 1% to 3%. The World Health Organization’s estimated case-fatality rate was 3.4%. Some experts - including in these pages - have questioned this assumption. They argue that known cases are likely only a small portion of the true number of infections, and thus high case-fatality rates could be off by orders of magnitude. We don’t...

Sources continued to say that Trump's presidency has left Obama "heartbroken," listing the federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic as a reason for a change in leadership. “The coronavirus disaster and the [federal] government’s inability to lead on it is searing in his brain … more than anything else Trump has done,” a second insider told the New York Post. “Obama is generally heartbroken by the Donald Trump presidency.”

A month ago, we interviewed Dr. Jay Bhattacharya just as the COVID-19 crisis was shuttering the economy and governments were ordering citizens to shelter at home. In that interview, Dr. Bhattacharya mentioned that he himself would soon be conducting tests for COVID-19 in Santa Clara County, California, one of the most active hotspots in the country. Today Dr. Bhattacharya returns to discuss the results of that study and one currently under way in partnership with Major League Baseball. We also discuss some signs of hope, and specifics about how the economy can be restarted safely and efficiently. Dr. Bhattacharya also...

An enraged Florida woman who suspected her boyfriend was dishonest stabbed him with surgical scissors whereas he was laid up in a hospital mattress, police mentioned. Taniea Denise Sherrod, 18, was busted Wednesday after her boyfriend reported the alleged stabbing on Nov. 19 at Bayfront Well being St. Petersburg, the Tampa Bay Occasions reported. Sherrod’s boyfriend, who was not recognized, advised police he was mendacity in a hospital mattress with the woman at his facet once they started arguing over “suspected infidelity,” in response to a police report obtained by the newspaper. Sherrod, of St. Petersburg, then grew to become...

As the president of the United States shelters in place with the White House press corps, and Joe Biden gibbers senselessly into the GoPro camera in his Delaware basement, this fall’s national election has been thrown into a cocked tricorn by the coronavirus. Many of Donald Trump’s retail-politicking strengths — the huge rallies, his command of crowds — have been neutralized, and while he still has control of the narrative from his bully pulpit in the West Wing, the national media remains dead set against him, and puts the worst possible spin on every word he speaks. Meanwhile, Biden and...